The day after former Illinois First Lady Patti Blagojevich ate a dead tarantula on network television to benefit herself and a charity, the selected charity said Tuesday that it had declined the offered money. Another charity took its place, according to NBC.

The former first lady said Thursday that she would be on "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!" for some undisclosed compensation, as well as to raise money for Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation. Not so, the foundation said, rejecting the offer last week.

Among the things federal prosecutors allege about former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is that in his last weeks as governor he tried to extort a campaign donation from the charity's partner hospital, Children's Memorial Hospital, in exchange for releasing reimbursement funds to it. A federal judge prohibited the ex-governor from competing on the show, which is filmed in Costa Rica. His wife went instead.

"With so much press going on about the governor, we want to be cautious," said Bear Necessities spokeswoman Courtney Krupa.

Krupa said the offer to Bear Necessities was made by Patti Blagojevich's publicist, Glenn Selig, and the show's producers May 26. The charity's board considered the offer that night and rejected it May 28.

The offer was for a share of telephone charges incurred by callers voting to eliminate contestants, Krupa said. The winner's charity would get three shares of whatever was earned that way. The runner-up's charity would get two shares and the charities represented by the other contestants would each get one share.

NBC spokesman Gary Mednick confirmed the payout plan and said Blagojevich would be competing instead for the Florida-based Children's Cancer Center. A representative of the center could not be reached for comment.